New PC With Linux

[Ruhart]

In a few months I will be making a brand new PC running some version of Linux (probably Ubuntu or Fedora). I took a Linux class a few years back, but I was wondering if I really should go with Linux. I can obtain my own knowledge through other threads and sites, but is there absolutely anything that Linux cannot do at all?

Thanks in advance.

[TheCoder]

.....is there absolutely anything that Linux cannot do at all?

I'm sure there is but rather than attempt to answer such an open ended question its probably better if you decide what it is you want the pc to do and then ask if linux can do that.

Generally, linux can do pretty much anything any other operating system can do but if your wanting a specific application or support for some specific hardware device then thats what you need to ask about.

[thawkth]

In a few months I will be making a brand new PC running some version of Linux (probably Ubuntu or Fedora). I took a Linux class a few years back, but I was wondering if I really should go with Linux. I can obtain my own knowledge through other threads and sites, but is there absolutely anything that Linux cannot do at all?

Thanks in advance.

Mostly? Run Windows programs. Though nowadays, virtualization is as such that you can run Windows inside linux if needed.

Hardcore gaming is really the biggest issue left :bounce:

[max071]

i don't like linux

[Shady]

i don't like linux

You more than likely use a variation of linux on most things in your house

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[GastonJ]

Hardcore gaming is really the biggest issue left :bounce:

A lot of the games were at one time developed on Linux first as the choice of development platforms for developers, think of the Quake, Doom series etc. I only used to buy games that were available on both platforms, so that I could play them on Linux, always ran faster and smoother. Loki Games used to be the place to get Linux games, shame they closed a few years back.

Lokie's site is still up

http://www.lokigames.com/

There's quite a few good places if you're looking for games

Games on Linux, the place for Linux gaming (http://gamesonlinux.com/)
The Linux Game Tome (http://www.happypenguin.org/)
42 of the Best Linux Commercial Games - Linux Links - The Linux Portal Site (http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20080530054213402/CommercialGames.html)

Shame the promises of Linux versions of Unreal never came to pass, or last time I checked they hadn't.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTExNjE
http://icculus.org/~ravage/unreal/unrealgold/
http://openut.sourceforge.net/
http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/forums/showthread.php/18749-Running-Unreal-Unreal-Tournament-natively-in-Linux

I have a couple of UT and UT2 games servers up and runing, though I haven't checked them for a while (months)

If you want an Office like package that's free search for Open Office - it's 'free' for both Windows and Linux.

[hallo18]

I run Linux the whole time, I would recommend over windows any-day. As regarding Open Office this has been taken over by another company and is now called Libre Office. Great package and its free of course, you could also run MS office under wine of course if you need too. the only problem that I seem to have with Linux is a decent program for sound conversion on audio tracks.
But that's it. It runs faster than windows, Better allocation of memory, no viruses, everything is free and less restarts when installing windows. I have used Debian, Mint, and am now running Pinguy Ubuntu.

[GastonJ]

Sound conversion, not a problem in Linux really. Try this link

Audio Conversion And Other Tools : Tom's Definitive Linux Software Roundup: Audio Apps (http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-linux-audio-software,2856-11.html)

[stanman]

Been using Linuxmint to replace win8 RC and have to say its lot better than in its early days.

LM found it to very easy to install and get perpherials up and running. The couple of times I ran into problems (network printer and webcam) quick web searched helped out.

Would highly recommend it

[chmod-uk]

I've used Linux in most of its flavours for the past 12 or so years and now I just use it as a server for smtp, apache, tor server, samba local file server and c programming, to name just a few of its uses. I prefer windows 7 and my hackintosh for general use, its a nicer place when you just want to get something done, not to mention current release games and all that. Sure you can bring gui applications over the Ssh to a xserver on windows from Linux and that is handy sometimes ;)

Ever since the Amiga went tits up and I moved to windows 95, I was missing the shell on my old miggy 500. I discovered an old cover cd with red hat 4 on it, wow it was amazing that I could get that Amiga shell like experience back on my now windows pc hardware (pentium 166mhz). So it all started from there with me and I've been through most distros since then, now settled with Debian, I just don't have the patience for compiling updates anymore but I used to prefer Slackware for many years. Oh and before the Amiga, I had been through most of the 8 Bits machines in the 80's. I did write a couple of small program's on the c64. I remember writing a sprite editor that, when you'd finished designing the sprite it would dump it as data lines for use in basic or assembler. Yeah on tape zzzz.

[alghouti1964]

Welcome to the world of Linux/Unix!!!